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'''Kurt Benesch''' (17 May 1926 {{ndash}} 20 January 2008) was an Austrian writer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/litarchiv/bestaende_det.php?id=benesch |title=Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Bestände Detailinformation |accessdate=2015-05-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127051051/http://onb.ac.at/sammlungen/litarchiv/bestaende_det.php?id=benesch |archivedate=2010-11-27 }}</ref>
==Life== His father was a governmental counselor. He finished his primary and secondary educations in Vienna, where he had been born. Later, he made working services in Poland and the military service in Italy. After a British imprisonment, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he received a PhD in literature.
==Prizes== * 1993 Ernst-und-Rosa-von-Dombrowski-Stiftungspreis
== Works== * 1955: ''Die Flucht vor dem Engel''. Roman * 1956: ''Der Maßlose'' * 1967: ''Nie zurück!'' * 1985: ''Die Spur in der Wüste'' * 1991: ''Der Jakobsweg nach Santiago de Compostela'' * 1993: ''Die Suche nach Jägerstätter'' (novela biográfica)
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== External links== * [https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=129036390 dnb]
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